ChartWare's electronic medical record system, EMR/EHR has been under development since the 1980’s and has accrued millions of successfully charted clinical encounters. ChartWare's electronic medical record system, EMR/EHR includes a customization tool that most of our health care providers (or their medical office staff) use to tailor the medical terminology over time to accommodate each clinician’s preferences, to make sure that the medical chart note reflects each users preferred method of documentation. ChartWare's electronic medical record, EMR/EHR, is different and unique as it provides the health care provider with a comprehensive clinical knowledge-base (clinical & procedural descriptors), from one screen. Additionally, he ChartWare EMR allows even the most complex patient encounter to be fluidly charted, without the cumbersome restrictions of a template based electronic medical record system. With ChartWare's electronic medical record system, EMR/EHR, the typical patient encounter takes about 2 to 3 minutes to completely document,including clinical progress notes, coding, orders, scripts, medical consultation reports or referral letters, disability and follow-up notices, patient health education handouts and all other iterations of the visit, with essentially all clinical and clerical tasks completed by the time the patient walks out of the exam room!

ChartWare's Electronic Health Record provides a Continuity of Care Record

The Continuity of Care Record is a standard specification being developed jointly by The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Health Information Management and System Society (HIMSS) and the ASTM International. ChartWare and early entrant into the EMR and EHR market was an early adopter of the CCR and EHR concept, which allows a patient's electronic medical record, the EMR to be exported to create and encrypted and password protected EHR, viewable with a browser such as MS Internet Explorer. ChartWare pioneered and was the first electronic medical record, EMR company to introduce a fully compliant EMR and EHR solution. The medical CCR is being developed and enhanced by the health care community in response to the need to organize and make transportable patient health data containing basic medical information consisting of the most relevant and timely facts about a patient’s health status, recent medical care provided, as well as recommendations for future medical care (care plan) and the reason for a medical referral or transfer. The goal is to create an EHR that will enable the next health care provider to easily access the patient's health and medical information at the beginning of the first health care encounter and easily update the medical information when the patient goes to another medical provider.

As a physician-driven EMR company, ChartWare has pioneered intuitive clinical documentation solutions to address today's most pressing medical practice and health care provider needs. Since 1995 ChartWare, the EMR and EHR solution specialist, has been delivering electronic medical record and clinical documentation software that is known for it's elegant functionality and ease of use. Today, ChartWare a pioneer in the world of electronic medical record and electronic health record-keeping is operational in medical facilities in over 40 states and has been successfully implemented in over 20 clinical specialties. What makes our EMR and EHR solution successful? ChartWare's electronic medical record technology is designed for doctors by doctors who understand the unique demands of clinical encounters and patient care. As health care providers, we're dedicated to improving how physicians work. A key feature of ChartWare's technology is its versatility across the spectrum of health care providers: the system is equally at home in solo medical practices and large health care organizations. ChartWare is the only electronic medical record, EMR software, suitable for both small and large medical installations, to have been awarded five stars by Family Practice Management, the official journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Ultimately a successful approach for a health care provider when implementing an electronic medical record, EMR will take into account improvements not only to clinical productivity but also to quality of patient care. As you, a health care professional, consider various electronic medical record, EMR technologies on the EMR and EHR markets, explore the range of benefits ChartWare's EMR is designed to deliver in greater depth. From time and cost-savings to a better professional quality of life for health care providers, ChartWare's EMR can help you work they way you want to work. Improving clinical performance using ChartWare's electronic record-keeping system is easily attained. ChartWare EMR customers typically gain an average of 2 hours per day in saved clinical documentation tasks and patient care management. Net result: additional time can be allocated for more patient visits or the workday shortened by 25 percent. Example: A single year for a health care provider comprised of 50 workweeks managing patients and providing health care can yield up to 500 hours of newly available time. ChartWare's EMR enables health care providers to capture precise clinical documentation at the point-of-care establishing a thorough patient medical history and ensuring timely and accurate clinical records for medical billing purposes.

What's the real return on your investment with ChartWare's Electronic Medical Record? It's not just a question of revenue gains achieved, when using the ChartWare EMR, exceeding lowered medical office operating expenses.To account for the true impact of EMR in your medical facility you have to look at how clinical workflow efficiency benefits you,the health care provide, your medical organization and the people it serves, your patients. If you improve how you, the health care provider delivers health care you can enhance professional clinical quality and patient satisfaction. With ChartWare's electronic medical record you can effectively manage health care delivery processes and restore focus on addressing patient health needs. With ChartWare you achieve better medical practice management, better clinical workflow, better health care quality and a return on investment that goes well beyond the simple cost-savings associated with providing medical care. Hand written patient health records are clinically inferior and more expensive to maintain than the electronic health record or EHR. Providing your patients with their health records in an electronic format is easily accomplished when you capture clinical data while charting with ChartWare.

ChartWare users save hours in daily patient care and clinical documentation in their medical practices. The range of scenarios health care providers face on a daily basis that are associated with paper health records can affect both medical practice management and clinical performance. Under clinical documentation associated with patient medical encounters in your medical practice can compromise everything from clinical information accuracy at the point of patient care to accounts receivable management. Over clinical documentation can create a medical practice liability. The challenge in finding the right electronic medical record or EMR solution involves ensuring your electronic medical record documentation system reflects your real medical practice workflow. ChartWare electronic medical record offers a proven EMR system that addresses this need.

ChartWare's electronic medical record is unlike conventional EMR software, ChartWare delivers an intuitive electronic medical record keeping system that works the way doctors really work at the point of medical care. With ChartWare's EMR you, the health care provider can eliminate the inefficiencies associated with outdated medical office practices like paper health records and hours of clinical dictation in favor of a streamlined process of electronic medical record-keeping.

The ChartWare electronic medical record system is an outline-based clinical charting tool with the flexibility of health care provider practice-driven variations, The Chartware EMR makes clinical documentation remarkably fast and easy at the point of clinical encounter. The end result is a better professional medical practice workflow: improved clinical accuracy, more readily available patient health information and a significant reduction in daily clinical documentation chores that affect the quality of patient health care and your medical practice management alike. There's no question that the transition from paper medical care charts to an electronic medical record or EMR requires an initial investment in time and training.It's also clear that the cost of delaying the implementation of an electronic medical record or EMR amounts to far greater losses of medical practice resources and revenue over the long term. With Chartware's electronic medical record system, what your medical practice gains in efficiency, quality of medical service and overhead reduction typically pays for your EMR investment in the first six months. More importantly, you save time exponentially in the long-term and the improvements to professional quality of life for a busy health care provider can be felt daily. Chartware customers report dramatically improved performance across their business.

“I looked at EMR systems for many years. ChartWare EMR is the only system that I could see myself using every day and I still feel the same. ”

Dr. Ernest Thomas Family Practice Customer Since 1998

ChartWare EMR is a system for computerizing medical record keeping. Chartware is faster, cheaper and far more accurate than traditional handwritten notes or dictation-transcription.

ChartWare® Professional — The software tool that clinicians use to create the medical record. ChartWare was designed by physicians who needed a tool in their own clinical work. Since 1995 it has been used in literally millions of patient encounters and in a score of different specialties. Physicians can capture information immediately, producing complete and accurate documentation at the point-of-care. ChartWare users cite ease of use as one of its most attractive features. ChartWare is as flexible as traditional note-taking, easily following the rambling course of most patient encounters. ChartWare can be customized to any individual's way of working, so that doctors can focus on their patients. With a few clicks ChartWare also takes care of other common chores by producing legible prescriptions, lab & x-ray orders, referrals and other necessary documents. These can be handed to patients before they leave the office or sent electronically at the patient's request. The ChartWare record can be accessed at any time and anywhere.

ChartWare® Practice Management Interfaces — gives you seamless uni-directional or bi-directional integration and data sharing between most of the popular practice management systems and ChartWare® Professional. Demographic and related practice management information is seamlessly available to ChartWare® Professional users and coding and clinical information is made available from ChartWare® Professional data directly to the practice management system users in the case of bi-directional interfaces.

ChartWare® Scheduler Interfaces & Systems — with our partners we provide a variety of seamlessly integrated scheduling programs that suit a wide range of budgets and requirements. Especially useful for clinician practices that prefer to engage a billing service to outsource accounts receivable management and that want to maintain a fully automated practice.

ChartWare® LabCorp Interface — creates a seamless link between the results generated from Laboratory Corporation of America and ChartWare® Professional. Results are automatically placed into the patient charts database in a fully structured form and lab results are displayed for viewing or reprinting. Automatically creates reminder alerts when new results arrive for clinician review. Automated order entry directly from ChartWare® to the laboratory is in development.

ChartWare® Quest Lab Interface — creates a seamless link between the results generated from Quest Diagnostics and ChartWare® Professional. Results are automatically placed into the patient charts database in a fully structured form and lab results are displayed for viewing or reprinting. Automatically creates reminder alerts when new results arrive for clinician review. Automated order entry directly from ChartWare to the laboratory is in development.